It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.

We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.

Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is of no mean force in the government of mankind.